Professional Software Deployment Working Group

The “Professional Software Deployment” Working Group aims to stimulate and support the industrial exploitation of materials modelling software and innovations in Europe. End-users require a choice of reliable software solutions, integrating innovative methods resulting from research in academic, government laboratories and commercial companies with industrial deployment standards such as general applicability, thorough validation, consistent accuracy, ease of use, interoperability, documentation, training, and long-term commitment to support and updates. An essential component for the successful industrial exploitation of modelling software is the connection with experimental public and proprietary data.

Objectives

Create and maintain a forum for academic code developers and different commercial software companies to interact

Build guidelines and standard practices for software development, including documentation, testing and support